Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name . |
| 2 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 3 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 4 | It seemed somehow deeper , as if its roots lay hidden in the past . |
| 5 | These became exposed in the Triassic and again in the Cretaceous and consequently the interbedded evaporites were removed and the carbonates themselves were karstified . |
| 6 | And I even , you know , got stopped in the station itself before I started . |
| 7 | And I actually got stopped in the checks . |
| 8 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 9 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 10 | He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage . |
| 11 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
| 12 | He could 've come in the shop and bought them , yeah . |
| 13 | It 's running so high , and so fast , even a good swimmer might not be able to get out if he once got caught in the current . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ You just got caught in the crossfire . |
| 16 | Ants frequently got caught in the pine resins that were destined to become amber , and numerous fossil species have been recognized . |
| 17 | He was saying he was ‘ hard-faced ’ and cited an incident where his girlfriend got attacked in the ground and the man ‘ did n't want to know ’ . |
| 18 | As it floated some plants became caught in the wood and the roots inbeded themselves and began to grow there . |
| 19 | Unsurprisingly , she became caught in the wires , but her owner had seen what had happened , and immediately raced to the rescue . |
| 20 | The local authorities in the Samsun governorate claim that the recent deaths of over 200 dolphins were caused accidentally , when the mammals became caught in the fishing nets . |
| 21 | I got the job and the speech became included in the play itself . |
| 22 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 23 | They became trapped in the ice . |
| 24 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 25 | If the heads are restricted to general terms they are a useful means of outlining the transaction and identifying the main areas the parties want to see included in the sale agreement . |
| 26 | Book Packagers & Marketing is floating a new series on classic fruit and flowers in response to the interest that Martin Marix Evans has received in the preservation of traditional varieties . |
| 27 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 28 | Father Giles reflected on the Beatitudes — their original meaning and the meaning that has developed in the course of time , up to the present day . |
| 29 | Althusser 's answer to this most pressing query has developed in the course of his work . |
| 30 | Hansen ( 1980 ) makes it very clear that signed Danish is not the same as the Signed English that has developed in the USA , and she believes it to be a more flexible and efficient natural language form . |